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I have now finished the sequel "The Dark Forest". It is quite unlikely anything I've ever read. A totally different book from the first part which was very character-based, with boundless creativity. First, the people behave more like ciphers for philosophical concepts, and the creativity leads to weird, boring places like a scientist being challenged by his girlfriend author to write a book on his own with his dream girlfriend and then the girlfriend becomes a hallucination that feels real (and then the tough detective from the first book finds a woman exactly like that hallucination for that scientist). But then, the narrative slowly pulls you in with aa couple of reveals, and the story turns dark, and then darker, and then darker. You literally lose faith in humanity. And then... Also, Philip K. Dick's Ubik, which begins as if the author was on something really good (probably true), and then becomes quite a lively story. Need to read more from him.

And her husbands and producer Clive Davis.

Australia is turning into a Koala republic.

Clarence "Count Prince" Miller, "legendary" entertainer known for his song Mule-train, dead at 83 from cancer: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20180816/legendary-entertainer-count-prince-miller-dies Was said to be ill a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if some UK obit appears as he died in London.

Currently alive again on WIkipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_White_(stuntman)

The long-time president of Benfica, Luís Filipe Vieira has been hospitalised for a week now: http://rr.sapo.pt/noticia/121548/luis-filipe-vieira-continua-hospitalizado

A former doctor for the Queen, homeopathic physician Peter Fisher, dies in a traffic accident with a truck: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/16/queen-doctor-peter-fisher-killed-cycling-london Told you homeopathy doesn't work.

"Careful what you wish for" edition nr. 56: Joey and DeathImpends currently both have 26 hits among their original 60 people. They both added people, like John McCain, Liu Xiaobo, you know sure hits. But since Lindy Remigino hasn't obited Joey might need to replace him with two new people.

It will be an exciting finish. In my opinion, the biggest weakness of theoldlady's really good team is Simon Ricketts, and machotrouts has John McCain. But they are both placed very low in their teams.

Perpetually torn between: and I hope to be able to promote Udo Kier to DeathList status at one point.

Who knew it would be in this order. As if David Bowie had died before Bing Crosby.

Inevitable, but still sad. Stephen Hawking has competition now.

Oh great, my best-performing deadpool team in the past month is my two-year old Generation Game team.

Well, then...

I was bored enough to check out how my Midsummer Madness pick Bertie McMinn was doing, and what's exactly wrong with him. He has a tumour on his spine and spent early July in hospice for rehabilitation: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/lodge-reroutes-parade-past-home-of-ill-member-who-missed-first-twelfth-in-decades-37121482.html

They are planning a tribute concert for her: https://www.nme.com/news/music/an-aretha-franklin-concert-is-being-planned-for-later-this-year-2366894 It would be funny if she attended it... even funnier if the organizer, producer Clive Davis, dies before her.

August 25th 2018

Is wrestling having a particularly bad year? Also, looks like I have to follow Jerry Lawler's twitter account.

Paralympian Equestrian Nicole Cullen dead at 38 from meningitis: https://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/5581469/paralympian-nicole-kullen-dies-aged-38-after-years-of-poor-health/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Kullen

Former The Apprentice winner and then White House sidepiece Omarosa Manigault says that Trump "is clearly obese" and his addictions to Big Macs, fried chicken and daily sun-tanning have caught up with him: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/13/omarosa-claims-trump-is-physically-ill-just-this-side-functionally-illiterate-in-new-book.html

British surname historian Dr. George Redmonds dead at 82: https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/expert-british-surnames-dr-george-15028599 Yeah, wrong thread, but he's an expert on monikers, so I thought it fitting.

Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits: Ian Holm (1931) Sean Connery (1930) Katherine Helmond (1929)

Well, as I am going to sleep now, and Aretha hasn't yet begun hers....thanks for all the Soul...

Bringing back this thread - also an idea for Bibliogryphon's film pool...

American supercentennarian Lilian Cox dead at 111, mentioned here and there I think: https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/08/13/indomitable-lillian-cox-dies-111/976481002/